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SUMMARY:Border Wars: The Radical Ethnography of John T. Caldwell
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DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive\, UCLA Chicano 
	Studies Research Center and UCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television\n
	In-person:\n\nfilmmaker and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor John T. 
	Caldwell\; community filmmaker Devora Gomez\; UCLA Associate Professor Jas
	mine Nadua Trice.\n\nAs a media artist and a scholar\, John Thornton Caldw
	ell has built a distinguished career around exploring communities of labor
	 in crisis and flux. A Distinguished Research Professor of Cinema and Medi
	a Studies at UCLA\, Caldwell has helped pioneer the field of production st
	udies in works that examine how below-the-line film and television workers
	 in Hollywood have adapted to globalization and technological change\, inc
	luding Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in
	 Film and Television (Duke University Press\, 2008) and Specworld: Folds\,
	 Faults\, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries (UC Press\, 2023). 
	In his work as a filmmaker\, Caldwell relies on fieldwork and ethnographic
	 research to document the exploitation and resistance of migrant farmworke
	rs and rural labor communities in central and southern California. Each pr
	actice informs the other in Caldwell’s larger project of making visible wh
	at our cultural politics and economic policies work to normalize or keep h
	idden altogether in what he has described as America’s “new suburban plant
	ation culture.” This timely program brings together a selection of Caldwel
	l’s experimental documentaries and agitprop videos that trace the history 
	and persistence of migrant worker exploitation and labor organizing in rur
	al California as well as the deep and tangled roots of the white grievance
	 feeding the populist rhetoric of the current election cycle. The Archive 
	is thrilled to present these works with Caldwell in person and in conversa
	tion with community filmmaker Devora Gomez and Jasmine Nadua Trice\, Assoc
	iate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA.\n\nIn conjunction with
	 this in-person screening at the Billy Wilder Theater\, the Archive will h
	ost two additional immigration-focused documentaries available to view for
	 free on the Archive’s Vimeo page: Amor Vegetal: Our Harvest (Devora Gomez
	\, John T. Caldwell\, 1996) and Freak Street to Goa: The Migratory Pattern
	s of Hippies on the Subcontinent (John T. Caldwell\, John L. Pudaite\, 198
	9).\n\nEvent Website: https://www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events-exhibition
	s/border-wars-the-radical-ethnography-of-john-t-caldwell-10-26-24/\n\nSour
	ce: https://community.ucla.edu/event/21c6518a-8eb7-458d-9583-a550d556599d
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater
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